HINDRANCES TO PRAYER

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HINDRANCES TO PRAYER
Holy Spirit
DISOBEDIENCE
UNCONFESSED SINS
Effective Prayer
WORRY
Unforgiveness
Blocked Prayer
Answered Prayer
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HINDRANCES TO PRAYER

• When prayers are not answered, you should
• examine yourself in the light of Gods Word.
• If you find anything not pleasing to God, confess
  it, believing that your prayers may be answered.
  
• 1 John 19
• An unharmonious relationship between a husband
  and wife will hinder prayer.
• Selfishness will hinder prayer.
• An unforgiving spirit will hinder prayer.

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Many Christian go without answers to prayer
because they have wronged others or have been
wronged and have failed to humble themselves
and seek reconciliation.

• Unbelief will hinder prayer.

• Known sin in the heart will hinder prayer.

When you pray, go to God in humility.

• Ask Him to reveal anything in your life that is
  not ..pleasing to Him.

• Judge it confess it call it by name
  forsake it.

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DOES GOD ANSWER ALL PRAYERS

• The Bible is filled with answered prayers
• from Genesis to Revelation.
• We are commanded to pray, and God has promised to
  answer. Jeremiah 333
• John 157
• In this Scripture, there are two requirements for
  answers to prayer.
• First, we are to abide in Him that is, to
  continue in Him.

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• It means to remain in His perfect will at all
  cost.
• Second, His words are to abide in you
• They are to become a vital part of your life.
• We are to be filled with, and guided by, words.
• When we meet these two requirements, our prayers
  will be answered.

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ANSWERS

• The answer is sometimes immediate.
• The answer is sometimes delayed.
• The answer is sometimes NO.
• When God answers no He always accompanies the
  answer with peace and grace.
• The answer is sometimes different from what you
  expect.
• You pray for patience and God sends tribulation
  because tribulation works patience.
• God answers all our prayers not according our
  wishes but according to His perfect will.